Now comes JG Ballard with a passage from a novel that was initially published in 1964 as The Burning World, then revised and expanded the following year into The Drought. We suspect that if Ballard were around this summer, he might consider reverting back to the first title.
The below excerpt, with images added by DP, might well have been written yesterday, given recent scientific research that confirms the relationship between an ocean saturated with plastic and the acceleration of greenhouse gas emissions.
ACROSS THE CRYING LAND
A SIMPLE JUSTICE
ENOUGH TO TANTALIZE MANKIND
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Desperado Philosophy 